Population growth, economic development, and rapid urbanization in many areas have led
to increased exposure and vulnerability of structural and infrastructure systems to hazards …

Natural disasters can cause large blackouts. Research into natural disaster impacts on
electric power systems is emerging to understand the causes of the blackouts, explore ways …

Existing urban forest literature is strongest in its quantification and qualification of the
benefits and care of trees, and not in its ability to assess the results of lack of investment in …

Several disastrous storms, such as Hurricane Sandy in 2012, that brought massive area
power outages for several days and even weeks in some areas, highlight the necessity of …

Ensuring the resiliency of critical infrastructures is essential in modern society, but much of
the deployed infrastructure has yet to fully leverage modern technical developments. This …

Critical infrastructure networks are often described as (i) interdependent in nature for
operability,(ii) vulnerable against multiple natural or human-made hazards, and (iii) vital for …

Managing the risk of wildfires has been arguably the biggest recent challenge of electric
utilities with infrastructure located in the wildland-urban interface. Utilities are deploying …

In many cases, risk and reliability analyses involve estimating the probabilities of discrete
events such as hardware failures and occurrences of disease or death. There is often …

In this article, we discuss an outage‐forecasting model that we have developed. This model
uses very few input variables to estimate hurricane‐induced outages prior to landfall with …

Weather events are a major source of disruptions to the electrical power grid. This study
examines the occurrence and variability of major weather-related electrical power …